Re: [flasher] RE: Is there a way to check the online status from an e xe without the error dialog?

[Andries van der Leij]

Hi Gregg,


Sorry for my  slow  reply.


Thanks for your reply. It's a nice app you wrote. May I ask with what

programming application you work?


I've tested it on our network. We have a DSL connection over a VPN and your

app told me I was connected when I was, but also when I wasn't. I guess this

has to do with the same problem that results in a incorrect result of the MM

Director "the environment.internetconnected" property.  It has to do with

the configuration of the intenet options settings:



http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/internt_connected.ht

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They have made a simple but effective work-around for this and I guess it's

the only way that you can be certain about the connection: by downloading a

.txt source from the Internet  and obtain a variable from it. Director uses

"GetNetText" and flash would use "LoadVariables". The problem is however

that that darn Flash Player comes up with that irritating dialog box when

the connection fails. If there would be a way to keep this dialog box from

appearing (maybe with some kind of resource hacker as reshacker...?) then

you are where you would want to be.


Third party developers have proved that the manipulation of the player is

not impossible. I myself have used FlashJester Jugglor for some time now and

it's great for making movies borderless, fixed and the best thing is that it

allows you to incude other files into one "neat" package, wich are unpacked

in running-time.


While flashjester doesn't offer this online status check I just found out

that the new beta from swifftools, swiffcanvas, does!


http://www.swifftools.com/stools/


It has other nice functionalities, such as writing to the registry (!!!),

wich of course is great for CD-rom projects or projectors on other types of

read-only media...


I don't know how the check from Swiff works though but all together I think

it's a nice app for it's price...


BTW  I saw your setting of the desktop app also and it's great!!!


Best regards,


Andries van der Leij




on 2/16/01 9:37 PM, Gregg Caines at

gcneometrixsystems [dot] com

 wrote:


> A while ago, I wrote a small windows app that checks if the user is

> connected to the internet or not and writes a flash-readable text file that

> either says 'connected=true' or 'connected=false' depending on the

> result.  You can run the app from a Flash projector with FS Command,

> so it requires no user interaction.

> 

> The problem is that connection detection itself is problematic, because

> of the different methods of connecting to the internet that are possible

> (DUN on win 95/98/ME and RAS on NT/2000, plus LAN, Proxy, or

> modem connections, all of which are compounded by computers that

> can use more than one method).  So... my app works fine on the few

> computers that I've tested, but it's largely untested, and I've never used

> it in a final product.

> 

> If you want to try it anyway, it's called checkcon.zip and it's at:

> www.neometrixsystems.com/exp/

> 

> I'd appreciate any feedback if you do happen to try it...

> 

> ---------------------------------------------------

> Gregg Caines

> n e o m e t r i x  systems inc.

> http://www.neometrixsystems.com

>

gcainesneometrixsystems [dot] com